The violent attack on Police Post No. 4 in the Naranjito colony, in the Ybyrarobaná district, has led to conflicting accounts regarding the perpetrators and their motives. The municipal mayor, César Machuca of the Colorado Party (ANR), rejected the existence of marijuana crops in the region and stated there is no evidence linking the attack to drug traffickers, calling it irresponsible to attribute it to criminal structures without concrete proof. Machuca said he spoke with the Minister of the Interior, Enrique Riera, who committed to reinforcing the police force and intelligence efforts to capture those responsible.
In contrast, the Minister of Defense, General Óscar González, presented a ballistic analysis that, according to him, links the attack to the Paraguayan People's Army (EPP) and drug traffickers. The conclusion is based on the identification of a 5.56 caliber cartridge, allegedly used by the EPP in a previous attack in 2025, and another 7.62 caliber cartridge, associated with organized crime in a 2020 confrontation. González stated this confirms that the EPP has lost its "ideological purity" and now operates with traffickers.
A third version was presented by former deputy Julio Colmán, who completely disconnected the EPP from the episode. According to his narrative, the attack was a reprisal by a drug trafficking organization due to an alleged diversion of 50 kilograms of cocaine. Colmán claimed that police officers had held a drug shipment, which was later returned after a payment was made, but with a quantity missing, which allegedly motivated the violent action. The former parliamentarian further accused the police post of operating a scheme to charge fees for allowing the passage of illegal shipments headed to Brazil, citing as an example a large shipment of marijuana intercepted in Salto del Guairá that reportedly originated from Villa Ygatimí.